Unusual Ocular Pathologies

Unusual ocular foreign body.

excised on August 20, 1948, and a piece of London Hospital sterile amniotic membrane (Morley's process-fat-free) of the same size as the raw area, was sutured into position. The appearance of the eye some four days after the operation is shown in Fig. 2, August 24, 1948, The appearance of the conjunctiva a month after operation is shown in Fig. 3, September 29, 1948. It is felt that these repre...

Implications of ocular pathologies for iris recognition reliability

Polyarteritis nodosa, with an unusual ocular presentation.

POLYARTERITIS nodosa (periarteritis nodosa), first described by Kussmaul and Maier (1866), is a relatively rare disease, but considerable attention has been paid to it in recent years. Duke-Elder (1962), describing the condition, wrote: "this is a disseminated disease of obscure cause characterized by necrosing obliterative lesions of small arteries and arterioles which appear nodular owing to ...

Ocular myocysticercosis: an unusual case of ptosis.

BACKGROUND Cysticercosis is common in endemic countries like India. It can have various clinical manifestations depending on the tissue involved. It refers to a parasitic infestation by Cysticercus cellulosae, the larval form of the pork tapeworm or Taenia solium. OBJECTIVE To report an unusual case of ocular cysticercosis involving the levator palpebrae superioris and superior rectus muscle ...

Unusual ocular presentation of acute toxoplasmosis.

Four patients with toxoplasmosis are reported with unusual presenting ocular lesions. One patient had an active lesion that appeared to involve the optic nerve as well as focal toxoplasmosis chorioretinitis at the macula. A second patient had a pale optic nerve in association with the classical chorioretinal scars of toxoplasmosis. The third patient had toxoplasmosis chorioretinitis of the macu...